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In the Christian lectionary, the massacre of the innocents doesn't happen until the day after Christmas. There we read about Herod's attempt to eliminate a potential threat to his rule by killing infants who were under 2 years of age. From moments of glory—angels singing and magi offering gifts—the story quickly takes frightening turn. Matthew's text (2:18) uses the words of an earlier prophet to tell this story, quoting Jeremiah 31:15. The earlier prophet recalls the joy of the people and their God who acts like a shepherd to them, but by verses 15 and 16, the story in Jeremiah also takes a dramatic turn. The women are grieving.
Like the mothers and sisters and aunts and grandmothers of biblical history, women around the world grieve. Women in Connecticut. Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Women in Philippines. Women in Pakistan. Violence is everywhere. We will continue to debate its cause and its triggers: mental illness and lack of treatment, glorification of violence, easy access to powerful weapons—the analyses vary. What we know is that innocents are gone from our love and care. Hopes are extinguished.
At noontime December 14 United Methodist Women staff were celebrating at our staff Christmas party. It was as time of togetherness and music and food. I loved holding young Henry David (born this May) with the excuse that it would allow his mother, staff editor Tara Barnes, to eat lunch. Only en route back to the office did I read about the tragedy in Newtown, Conn. My arms were still warm from the sleeping child, and my stomach and my heart were sick. It was as quick and unexpected an emotional shift as the prophet makes in Jeremiah 31. In one verse Israel is blessed and protected and in the next its women lament a massacre.
Isn't this always the way losses overtake us? Our focus on the power and benevolence of God is interrupted by the reality of sickness and evil and vulnerability.
What we know, without doubt, is that God is with us. The power of the Christ child, born on Christmas day, is God's demonstration that love takes risks. Though this love appeared to be weak, it was not limited by taking human form. The love of God is made real through this human couple who step into extraordinary roles and say yes to being part of the drama of God's love. They said yes, and nothing will ever be the same again.
May we hear the voice of God in our own dreams and may we have the courage to respond. May it be unto me as thou hast said. May we sustain both weeping and joy in the confidence that God is with us—Immanuel.
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Justin Timberlake
During his performance with Jay-Z, JT had ladies, from the audience to Facebook, fanning themselves due to how hot he looked. He was equally attractive on the red carpet in a black Tom Ford tux, complemented with a white-edged pocket square, black cummerbund, over-sized black bow tie, and black and white loafers. Out of all the guys at the 2013 Grammys, he earned the label as the best dressed man there. His date for the evening was his wife, Jessica Biel.
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Adam Levine
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Neil Patrick Harris
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Ryan Seacrest
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Hunting collegues - We all owe John Jackson of Conservation Force a huge thank you. Today was the deadline for Countries to submit agenda items for the CoP meeting in March. No one petitioned to up-list Lion from CITES II to CITES appendix I status. It apparently remains a remote possiblity that a petition was submitted at the last minute and the schedule was not updated yet, but all indications seem to be that the for now, Lions will remain a CITES Appendix II species.
This is a hige victory for DG hunters and the credit goes to that small and highly dedicated group working to implement sound management programs throughout Africa.
Let"s hope that the latest information is correct and the uplisting has been defeated for now. Much work remains, even if this year the up-listing was defeated by conservation management and sceince. This issue will will come up again.
We sportsmen and women need to be viligent in our support for those organizations that support our rights to hunt domestically and abroad, was well as the organizations that support one of the most fundemental of American rights: the right of individuals to keep and bear arms free from the unreasonable intrusion of governmet.
My personal thansk to Mr. Jaclson and and everyone who worked so hard to maintain the tradition of Big 5 safari hunting based on sound game management practices.
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Vindaloo is an extremely spicy Indian curry dish; our version has heat but doesn't overwhelm. The dish goes well with jasmine rice and naan. If you've got time, make your own Homestyle Indian Naan, but if you make the vindaloo on a weeknight, store-bought naan is fine.
In a small bowl, stir the curry powder, paprika, and 3/4 tsp. black pepper. Put the chicken in a medium nonreactive bowl, sprinkle with 1 Tbs. of the curry powder mixture, about half of the garlic, 2 Tbs. of the vinegar, and 3/4 tsp. salt; toss to coat. Set aside at room temperature.
Heat the oil in a 10- to 11-inch straight-sided sauté pan over high heat until shimmering. Add the onion and ¼ tsp. salt and cook, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon, until it softens and begins to brown around the edges, 4 to 5 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium high, add the ginger, the remaining garlic, and the remaining curry powder mixture and cook, stirring, until fragrant and well combined, about 45 seconds.
Add the tomatoes and mix to combine, scraping the bottom of the pan with the spoon. Stir in the chicken, reserved tomato juice, remaining 2 Tbs. vinegar, and 2/3 cup water. Bring to a boil, cover partially, reduce the heat to medium, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the chicken is tender and cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve sprinkled with the cilantro.
Serve with a hearty side like Green Lentils with Green Beans and Cilantro.
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by FreddieFlea,
2/2/2012Good and easy. I must have the freshest curry powder and cayenne. Mine came out pretty hot, not painful, just noticed the burn. No complaints. Would be good with grilled veggies, too.
by Niki344,
1/29/2012This was sooo yummy! It wasn't quite hot enough for my taste so I added garlic-chile. I also added mushrooms and peas, because I had them and they needed to be used up. This reminds me of the Vindaloo I'd get in the UK from our local tandoori shop. This was a great recipe.
by Zytigg,
1/12/2012This was quick and good. The only change I made was to add the left over tomato juice to the water and made it measure 2/3 cup.
by highheat,
6/6/2011As others I did not find it really hot but I did add garam masala spice at the end and it had overall a very nice taste with a slight hint of heat. I would make again.
by Scooteroo,
5/23/2011I really enjoyed this dish--not too fussy, but full of flavor and easy to prepare. I don't know this type of cuisine very well, or whether it is authentic, but I can say I REALLY enjoyed the flavors in this dish. I'll be making this again as it is something very out of the ordinary for me.
by YesICook,
3/29/2011This turned out great! I added some small sweet peppers in with the onions, took out 1/2 tsp of the Curry seasoning replacing it with an equal amount of Garam Masala, and used smoked paprika instead of the hot. The heat level was fantastic from the spice - made me sweat. My spouse had to add a bit of sour cream to tone the heat down. Next time I'll probably toss in some snow peas while it simmers. Very tasty!
by recipesforkeeps,
1/7/2011Really love this easy recipe! Wouldn't change a thing except adding to spice level. The recipe makes a low spice, but maybe that's dependent on the brand of hot paprika you use. I added 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper to bring it up a notch or two.
by tinybites,
2/20/2011Tasted pretty good, but nothing special. I found the vinegar a bit overpowering, so added some brown sugar to balance it out. Like others, I found it to be missing something, so I stirred in some butter to give it a bit of richness that seemed to be missing. I also folded in some baby spinach at the end for a bit more veg and colour. This was overall just OK, so I probably won't make it again.
by manena72,
2/8/2011This was a very easy and tasty recipe to make. I served it for dinner last night along with Jeera Rice (basmati rice with cumin seeds). My husband is Indian and we love Indian food, we both thought it was very tasty, but not at all what Chicken Vindaloo is, in fact, we couldn't really compare it to anything. It was a yummy dish, but it was a VERY mild curry and not at all how Indian food bursts with flavor as soon as it touches your tongue. I will not be making this again.
by newmanm,
1/27/2011This recipe turned out great, I loved everything about it. Because one review cited that it wasn't spicy enough, and that's what I was looking for, I added some garlic-chili sauce by the same company that makes Siracha hot sauce (another favorite of mine). It goes perfectly with the curry, paprika, and garlic seasonings already in the dish. I served mine in a bowl over a bed of brown rice along with some store bought nan grilled on the stove top using a grill pan and brushed with evoo. Awesome dish, and all in an hour on a busy week night!
by amsandy,
1/25/2011I gave this only 2 stars because there was nothing really great about it. It was good, but it was also kind of plain.... not sure what it is missing, but it is missing something. If you like a bland curry, that this will be right up your alley. Would love some hints on what to add to it to make it POP!
by Janelle2277,
1/25/2011There is nothing wrong with this recipe, it is very good. I just like to reserve the 5 stars for those recipes that are really outstanding. This is easy and tasty. I added 1/2 cup coconut milk in the end, just because I had some hanging around in my fridge. I also added a little sugar because I like it sweet and spicy.
by Macaroni,
1/21/2011So easy to make and delicious
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We thought we should build a stand-on Balancing scooter but then decided that we needed to make something original. What about a Balancing chair my boss said. Now that's cool!
We happened to have a cool looking Carbon Fibre Racing chair just sitting around not being used so we started with that. We previously ordered a couple of geared down 250W scooter motors and some wheels to suit.
Now to order the electronics! Reinventing the wheel is a waste of time, and XenonJohn had already developed the code and worked out which hardware to use so we ordered exactly what he recommended.
Power came from some Makita drill batteries. These are used for most of our travelling exhibits as they are easy to get, to charge and we have a few batteries laying around for just such a purpose.
Here is a short video of the chair being driven around. Note the 3rd build Balancing scooter too doing a drive through.
Step 1: Description of the Build
There is little or no detail about the balancing software or how it works as XenonJohn has already described this so well.
There will be details on how we built our SciChair and what you will need to do to build your own.
The electronics is nearly exactly what XenonJohn used on his skateboard but I have removed the resistors he used for the switches so therefore, the code is different. See attached code for button steer and proportional steer.
Thanks for your patients waiting for the code.
Well it's finally here!
Both the switch steer and the resistor pot steer.
Wiring is quite easy. I have a simple diagram to show what goes where.
Enjoy and let me know if there is anything missing or questions.
Hi. I am building my own SitWay and I think your components and codes are great.
The IMU link you provided is a blue accelerometer that is way more expensive than the red one you have in the image which is around 15US. Should I order the red one? In addition, I have a Triple Axis Accelerometer & Gyro Breakout SEN-11028
do you think I can use your code directly for that?
I am a high school student and am very eager to finish this project in time. Thank you
This IMU will not work with the code.
It's a digital IMU and the code is for an analog one.
You wrote about the blue LED that blinks for about 4 sec gyro calibration. But I did not find it on a map.
Maybe someone else is looking for an analog gyroscope.
Here's the link itself today already ordered a 2 piece
Well my boys and I are embarking on a build based on your SciChair...we have purchased all the items including the 5 DOF accelometer (linked to in the parts list) and can't seem to work out how to wire this in to the circuit based on the different board layout. Can you provide some guidance on this...
We live in Adelaide and hope to have our self-balancing "cockpit" up and running in a few months...we would also love to send some photos and perhaps video when we finally get things sorted.
Thank you for all the info in your instructable, it seems pretty straight forward and gave us the confidence to embark on our journey :)
But in the mean while if you look at the old sparkfun IMU and connect the same names as the new IMU.
The buttons on the joystick should connect to the tilt adjust mechanism.
I'll check it!
Can wait to see a video.
This value is in the annotation as 350 but the value I used in the code is 340.
Change it up/down by about 5 and this will change the tip start position.
The only issue is that bumps move your hand and the joystick more.
We used a joystick that doesn't give full left or full right for the movement.
It's a 100k we are using but that doesn't matter as you put 5volts across the terminals and read the voltage from the wiper.
If you disconnect the gnd and 5volt lines and fit a 2k resistor inline between the gnd side and the 5volt side.
This means the reading will never reach 0volt or 5volts.
That should fix your issue.
We will be writting code for the 6DOF digital version soon.
John has written code for that IMU which it sound like you have.
Test it out and let us know how it goes.
what the value of potentiometer is used in the steering??
John who wrote the code we are using has done some code to use the IMU you have.
Let us know how it works.
It looks almost like a wheelchair for a disabled person, except for the smallish wheels.
Can it go up a curb from street to sidewalk?
Nope won't go up curbs unless it's ramped.
He wrote the code.
With your code chair would like to build a scooter type V2 but with the steering right and left driven by two potentiometers at the base of the steering column.
You can do?
What should I change in the code?
What pots to use?
Sorry for the many questions ..
Thank you very much,
Sincerely, Gerry
You only need one potentiometer for the steering.
Have the other one as a small one that you set to the middle position.
Tilting the unit will still work as normal.
Or remove that part out of the code like the scooter has.
As for a potentiometer get a good quality one for RS components or someone.


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Hu Yan is a Professor and Vice Dean of Fudan's School of Nursing. She has served as Chair of the CMB China Nursing Network (CCNN) since October 2011. The mission of CCNN is to pioneer, model, and lead nursing education, nursing research, and nursing services in China -- all to promote the advancement and professionalization of nursing in China.
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Nobody does a dark middle chapter quite like The Walking Dead. This is an episode where everything you think you know about this series gets turned upside down. Secrets are exposed and lies come to a head. This is a volatile chapter full of incredible moments and explosive action. Buckle up, because Long Road Ahead is a bumpy ride worth taking.
Before we get started, let me spend a minute bringing everybody up to speed. If you haven't played either of the first two episodes, then this review is not for you. For the sake of not being redundant, everything I have to say about the controls and presentation is covered in my review of
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Things start out peaceful enough back at the motel. Sure there's the occasional squabbling, but everybody is still alive and, thanks to a recent trip to town, there's enough food to last through the winter. But Lilly, still reeling from the events of the last episode, believes that somebody in the group is stealing rations. It doesn't take long before things start to unravel. And things only get worse from there.
Events force the group to hit the road, where they eventually run into what looks like an abandoned train. Suddenly the goal is clear -- they need to get this train going and ride it all the way to Savanna, Georgia. That's easier said than done, or so our gang of survivors learns. This is the episode where loose threads finally come to a head and secrets come out. And more importantly, your party changes in dramatic ways in this episode. There will not be a dry eye in the house when you complete this thrilling chapter.
Unlike past episodes, this was a slow burn. For the first hour I felt letdown, worried that nothing substantial would happen. Even after the group hit the road, it didn't feel as exciting as A New Day or Starved for Help. And then, completely out of the blue, the story picks up steam. Suddenly you're in the middle of one crucial decision after another. Before you know it the cast of characters has changed in significant ways. What some TV shows do in two or three seasons, Long Road Ahead does in one single three hour episode.
This is the most action packed chapter yet. This time around you'll find multiple reasons to use your gun. And not just your pistol, but a rifle, monkey wrench and other blunt objects. Still, nobody is going to mistake The Walking Dead for an action game. Calling The Walking Dead an action game is like calling Resident Evil 6 survival horror. But be prepared, a quick trigger finger will be required in more than one situation.
It's hard to top the highs of the last episode, and Long Road Ahead doesn't even come close. Still, this is a strong episode with all kinds of tough decisions to be made. It's also a funny episode, with more humor than I was expecting. One of the choices you make involves giving Duck a high five. If you choose not to, the game will ridicule the player for leaving the kid hanging. And it's not just the non-verbal jokes, but also how Duck and Lee seem to bond in this episode. I found myself laughing at several moments, and that's not something I remember doing in either of the first two episodes.
Perhaps it's the change of scenery, but it felt like there was a lot more to do in this episode. The game starts up with an interactive moment, and from there we're treated to train puzzles and a potentially explosive car wreck. There's also some fun investigation stuff in the early part of the game, though I wish that was a little more involved. For those complaining that you never get to control Lee directly, Long Road Ahead is for you.
There are a few jump scares that caught me off guard, but the horror isn't nearly as effective here as it was in Starved for Help. Even using the comic book-style art design, the stuff at the St. John Dairy is as creepy as video games get. There's nothing quite that scary in this episode, which is disappointing. Still, this does move the story along in some interesting (and occasionally gruesome) ways.
You can really see the choices you made in past episodes coming back to haunt you in Long Road Ahead. I can't wait for the series to be over, so that I can go back through the game using a completely different path. This chapter is full of those choices, and I can already tell you that I'm going to have a lot to answer for the next time I play The Walking Dead. Even when I go out of my way to make the "right" decision, I'm finding that every choice leads to sadness and death. By the time the credits rolled, I wasn't sure that anybody in this game was going to survive until the very end.
Long Road Ahead is yet another strong episode in The Walking Dead. This middle chapter is the very definition of bad road trip. Secrets come out and important cast members die, it's that kind of episode. It may not hit the highs of the first two chapters, but I guarantee that you'll remember the events found in these three hours for the rest of your life.
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Am I the only one who greatly miss these franchises?
Heretic 2 was such a great adventure action games and a very underrated multiplayer game.
And Hexen 2 was so amazing, facing the horseman of the apocalypse was so epic, the necro was so fun to play, the cleric had amazing power tome variants, the assassin was a lot of fun (and had imo, the best final weapon of the game).
What happened to these franchises? Nowdays with all these FPS with leveling RPG mechanics tacked-in, the world of hexen could be perfectly bought back in a borderlands style of game, maybe not even requiring the loot part, the game was a lot of fun either way.
Anyone knows what happened to the developers? Who owns the trademark? Recently I really felt like playing Hexen 2 again, and damn, its old school but there is something magical about that game, it could be so well adapted to our current time.
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The Heretic and Hexen franchises. What happened to them?
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Re: The Heretic and Hexen franchises. What happened to them?
I'm actually in the middle of playing HeXen from time to time. Finished Heretic last year and it was great. If you're into the old Doom like games, you'll probably like these as well. Although these games are quite old for modern systems, there are various projects that have enhanced the game engine to work on newer systems. Doomsday Engine for example.
According to Wikipedia, Raven Software, who made these games was acquired by Activision so I guess they hold the intellectual property for these games. The people responsible for HeXen and Heretic left after the acquisition and formed Human Head Studios. Sadly, I haven't played any of their other games but I've heard good from Prey.
I guess what's holding back making another game like HeXen or Heretic are publishers. They probably considers these old games dead (except for the flagship Doom) and refuse to fund them. A Kickstarter project might be the only way with a reasonable budget.
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Thats too bad, lets hope that with this Kickstarter craze someone remembers about those 2 franchises, I am sick of all those military shooters, an FPS like heretic or hexen would be a breath of fresh air.
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Re: The Heretic and Hexen franchises. What happened to them?
There's still a community around those older games, primarily the original Doom and games using the same engine (Heretic, Hexen and Strife). Advanced engines like ZDoom/GZDoom, Eternity, Boom and Doomsday add some great extra features like hi-res and scripting. Plenty of people are still churning out custom levels at sites such as www.doomworld.com. Also made a few custom episodes myself.
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Kate Middleton Pregnancy Rumor of the Day: Expectant Duchess Collapses!by Free Britney at .
Is Kate Middleton pregnant? Needless to say, we highly doubt it, but we've now read three different celebrity tabloid reports to that effect in as many days.
In this one, the Duchess collapsed no less!
The Star cover story, citing a "palace tattletale," says the mother-to-be and Prince William, who wed on April 29, are expecting, and she's had complications.
An ambulance was called, if you believe the magazine, after William found his spouse of six months unconscious on the floor. The stock photo is so convincing.
Not surprisingly, almost no one believes the bombshells of the past week, which include In Touch matter-of-factly saying she's preggers and Us' more carefully worded story about Kate being "ready for baby" or some such nonsense.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman has called past tabloid reports "absurd" and "certainly not true," but you have to wonder what prompted this week's deluge.
It's not the first time Star made Kate Middleton pregnant. In June 2010, the magazine reported that she was expecting a baby ... before even getting engaged.
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I wish Kate Middelton a blessed life! IN OTHER NEWS: THAT DAMN JENNIFER LOPEZ A.K.A. J-HO... I should have even known better, because there's something about WOMEN CELEBRITIES: AS SOON AS THEY DITCH A MAN, THEY ARE READY TO F**K THE FIRST THING SWINGIN' !! NOW J-HO HAS TWINS, & SHE'S READY TO FREAK & F**K SOME LITTLE CUB, & THAT BITCH IS IN HER 40'S ! OH, BY THE WAY SHE'S FROM THE BRONX LIKE ME, & DOES SHE EVEN GIVE BACK TO HER HOOD ????????????????????????
Miss Emma. I don't see the reason you are getting so angry about this.. I am pretty sure British people speculate as much as "yanks" as you call us so just because it is not posted in a magazine it doesn't mean people will not do it.. that is how they make the money by advertising crap or some crap and people will be like "oh did you see that" or " lets see whats new" but I totally agree with you on all the junk and crap we got here with the fame whore and the other little fame whore..lol...so cheer up let the junkies do all their drama bull shit so others can spend their money and time and nerves to see who has more money or who screwed who and who spent more millions on a ring or a wedding to end it short time after...:)..have a great day
Christ! Im British and you yanks speculate about her being pregnant more than our tabloids, if she is just give it a rest, maybe shes in the first trimester and wants to keep it sacred as things can go wrong, report more about what you know i.e justin biebers baby drama and kim k being a fame whore


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Limpopo this 2012 hunting season
This is a discussion on Limpopo this 2012 hunting season within the Hunting Africa forums, part of the HUNT AFRICA category; I'm taking my son to Safari this August in the Limpopo. Wondering if anyone had a scouting report? We're looking ...
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I'm taking my son to Safari this August in the Limpopo. Wondering if anyone had a scouting report? We're looking for Kudu, Blue Wildebeest and some smaller plains game.
A buddy of mine went to Nambia a few years back only to find out the Kudu herds had been decimated by disease in the region he hunted.
Just wanted to start a thread and see if anyone has been there/is there and knows how it is starting to shape up for this hunting season.
I'll be huntin with Nic with Madala Safaris.
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You should have no problem hunting/sighting the game you have indentified. Practice those shooting skills off the sticks, and getting set up to shoot from different positions. Good luck with your hunt.David Tenney
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As with everything, there are swings in wild populations as a natural process.
Rabies is endemic throughout most of Africa.
The WHO Rabnet was shut down because the information was unreliable for under reporting. So, who really knows about outbreaks of Rabies.
Looking at their gallery and seeing the first TWENTY pictures are of Kudu Bulls. I don't think there is an issue with Kudu being extirpated by disease.
Your hunt is booked, wrong timing for asking questions about game density now.
Go have fun. Take lots of pictures and write up a hunt report for us.Practice whispering before you leave for Africa!
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My brother and a friend hunted with Nic last year and did not have a problem with quantity or quality of animals. I think they took 17 or 18 animals between the 2 of them. He actually spoke so highly of him that I have booked my first African Safari with NIC for July with my wife.
When I return I will post a report and let you know how it was. I know it will be short notice but seeing as you have already booked your safari it won't really matter.
I really don't think there will be a problem as everybody i have talked to have had nothing but great things to say about Nic and his hunting area.
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I hunted with Nic last year. He'll work hard to get your animals for you. I have nothing but good things to say and my wife and I had a good hunt. I understand he has a couple of good properties to hunt this year as well. Please post a hunt report when you return.
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You should have no problems. Have an excellent hunt!Larry
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Just returned from my hunt with Madala Safaris. My wife and I had a great time and an awesome experience. Nic was a great host and I got all the animals on my list as well as my wife shot a very nice warthog. I will post a report and some pics up but I just got my computer back today.
I will say that you will have a great time hunting and should not have a problem getting your animals. Nic will work hard to get you what you want. I shot a Kudu that was beyond my expectations. The lodging was great as well and the wildgame meat was cooked perfectly.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.
Practice shooting off the sticks is the biggest thing I could say as I learned my lesson on the first day. HA.
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its a lovely decongested feeling, having completed this album. Leonardo de Vinci said a work of art is never finished, only abandoned. (and that thought makes me crazy)but were getting rested and making a focused and conscious effort to give up any preconceived judgments of day to day normalcy within each other and our surroundings. Any binding that creates a wall, a misunderstanding -at its true origin. Trying not to hold on to the patterns weve formed in our pasts but creating new ones in places we would of never found alone. Musically weve challenged each other to except the natural direction of the creativity that flows between us, aiming to free ourselves from the ridiculous need to please and be pleased by conventional means. An endless task of endless love. The making of this album has taught us all a lesson in personal detachment- so, were titling it, On letting go. What are some things in your lives that you think you could benefit from letting go of ?
There are things we see in movies that serve for most people more as idealized romantic notions than actual reality: the pivotal scenes where people turn their backs on a rational life choice to follow their hearts instead and the consequences be damned. But on occasion, these things do happen in real life, and Circa Survive is the product of just such an extraordinary decision.
From an outside perspective, Anthony Green had it made in early 2004. He was fronting Saosin, a California-based band that was rapidly on the rise. He had felt strongly enough about the group to relocate from his native Philadelphia to the West Coast, and now major touring and a debut album were on the horizon. But something just wasnt right. Even after a year on the other side of the country, the scenario didnt click. I constantly thought about what it would be like if I was in a band and I was in my hometown and if I was making music that I had more control over, recalls the singer. I was wondering if there was a possibility that Id be able to pull something together and have people that Id really like to work with working with me.
Things with Saosin were moving too quickly to stop, though. Or so it seemed. In need of space, Green flew back to Philadelphia for some conveniently timed oral surgery. I scheduled getting my wisdom teeth out so that I would have to fly home and hang out for a little bit, he admits. Also on the agenda was spending some quality time with his old friend Colin Frangicetto.
Frangicetto had been dealing with upheaval in his life, as well, following the split of his own band, This Day Forward a popular Philly hardcore act that had been on the scene for seven years. He had been in the group since high school, meaning it was pretty much all he had known as an adult. It was the first time in a while that I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen in my life, he remembers. So, while weighing the options, he re-enrolled in school and set about making demos of his own material. I was really never expecting to even put anything out with Anthony, says the guitarist, thinking back on Greens visit. I was just enjoying hanging with my friend and didnt want to get my hopes up, even though we were writing and jamming every day, regardless of my schoolwork. It was so exciting and inspiring to work with someone likeminded; he was just as driven as I was to just go and not stop.
The reality check came soon enough, however, with Green expected back out West to get things rolling with Saosin. Despondently, he headed for the airport and thats when things kicked into big screen mode. We had spoken seriously about him quitting and us doing a real band for the first time the day before, remembers Frangicetto. But it was almost in a wishful, fantasy type way. Then I was in class, and he left me a message saying that he didnt want to leave, and that our story wasnt over. I rushed to call him, and when I finally got him on the phone, he said, I cant talk right now, were gonna take off. Ill call you on my layover in Arizona.
I had a layover in Phoenix before I got to LA, explains Green. I was freaking out. It was such a weird turning point. I just felt like, if somethings going to happen, Im going to have to do it. I hadnt had to do anything really hard in the last year. I had just been in this band, and on tour. I was so nervous to make any kind of decision. So I actually was totally just going to go back to California and do those tours, and then try and do a side project with Colin. But when the truth hit him, it hit hard. Green never even got on the next plane. At that moment, in that Arizona airport, everything changed. I went to the lady at the front desk in Phoenix and was like, I made a mistake. I need to go back, he reveals. She must have thought I was a runaway or some messedup kid.
Frangicetto, meanwhile, was experiencing what he can only describe as utter shock and disbelief. As he relates, I definitely did not to expect to get a call that went something like, Im gonna need you to pick me up at Philly International around 6:00 a.m. Im not going back. I just called and quit. Im not even getting my clothes back. Reunited that early morning, under the most surreal of circumstances, the pair drove back home as the sun came up over the city. The next day they commemorated the event by composing a track appropriately titled Handshakes at Sunrise.
Things fell into place relatively easily over the next few months. The two already had the support of Equal Vision Records, who were excited enough by their demo material to offer them the backing they needed to get everything well and truly moving. Guitarist Brendan Ekstrom was the next to sign up for the cause. An obvious choice to help expand the sound of what would soon become Circa Survive, Ekstrom had played with Frangicetto in This Day Forward since 2001, and the two both got on well and inspired each other musically. I was blown away by Brendans presence and guitar playing from the start, says Frangicetto. I had always known that if I were to ever start another band I would need and want him with me.
Working together to further define the sonic attributes of their rapidly gestating musical project, the three set about recruiting the rest of the group. A drummer search resulted in Steve Clifford taking a seat behind the kit, while bassist Nick Beard pulled a reverse of Greens original stunt, relocating from California where he played in Taken to Philly to join the newly formed outfit. Nick was the dude in Taken that had it all together and rocked like a madman. He definitely keeps our band sane and pleasant, explains Frangicetto. We met Steve through Vadim Taver of Marigold. He knew we were looking for a drummer and gave Steve my number. He jammed with us for a week and from there it was on. Hes the young funny guy of the band. He makes us laugh.
With the lineup thusly solidified, the music really started to take shape, as well. What started out as a two-man collaboration quickly grew into something more. It has become something organic, Frangicetto explains. Something completely co-owned. Before it was Anthonys and my baby. When the other guys joined that all changed. All of the music represented a collective effort no egos, no bullshit not to mention some serious talent.
To hone things down, the group rented a house in the area, moved in, and came up with the material that would make up their debut album, Juturna, due April 19th on Equal Vision. A mind-bending amalgamation of influences ranging from prog-rock to art-metal, it reflects both the diverse backgrounds and the common bonds of the five unique individuals who make up Circa Survive. Marked by intricate arrangements and the pristine production of Brian McTernan (Thrice, Bane, Cave In), the disc displays a band-wide chemistry that radiates from every track. It also boasts a stunning lead single in the epic Act Appalled, along with such emotionally weighty songs as Holding Someones Hair Back and Stop the Fucking Car, both of which match the visceral qualities of their titles with their content.
Clearly, fans of any of the members former bands will be surprised in a very good way. Its definitely a lot more straight up rock and roll, less metal-y kind of stuff than Saosin, offers Green. I definitely sound different than Ive ever sounded, but I dont entirely know why that is. Maybe its because Im a little bit older. Its delicate music, but its not too passive. Its got all this bulk to it. Theres a sick amount of groove.
We really just want to bring back that quality that was extremely present in the music of the 60s and 70s, adds Frangicetto. That urgency; the feeling that a note could change the world. Thats one extreme. Another is just simply to be an artist that isnt contrived or a trend follower. Based on the story so far, of course, it would be impossible to accuse this band of being anything other than purely heartfelt. And the same can be said for their music. So, yes, this is the kind of story usually reserved for the silver screen. But this is reality and it should serve as an inspiration to us all.
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Jill Hirschinger, a four-time America East Coach of the Year, enters her 18th season as head coach of the University of New Hampshire volleyball program, marking her 36th season as a head volleyball coach. Hirschinger was named the head coach of the Wildcat volleyball program in the spring of 1996 by former athletic director Judy Ray, in the second season that UNH regained its varsity status. In her 18 years at UNH, she has become the program's winningest coach and the first to surpass the 200-win milestone as she currently has 265 victories. Not to mention she has guided the Wildcats to 20-win seasons six times during her tenure in Durham. Hirschinger earned her 200th career win at UNH when the team captured a 3-1 win over Southern Methodist University in the deciding match of the UNH Tournament on Sept. 15, 2007.
Hirschinger has spent the past 35 seasons as a head coach at both the Division I and II levels. She has accumulated an impressive 674-495-10 overall record, owning a .575 winning percentage. Hirschinger's 674 career-coaching victories rank her 11th on the all-time active NCAA wins list. She reached the 600 win plateau in the second-to-last match of the regular season in 2006 with a 3-2 win over America East rival Binghamton on Nov. 11 at Lundholm Gym. She also coached a pair of All-American honorable mentions (Aly Coler and Beth Cole) during her tenure at UNH.
Last season Hirschinger coached her Wildcats to a record of 15-14, including an 7-5 mark in conference play. The Wildcatstallied a season-high seven game winning streak, including winning five straight over America East opponents. UNH earned the fourth seed in the America East tournament but fell to top seeded Albany 3-0, in the semifinal round.
Hirschinger won the 2003 America East Coach of the Year after guiding the program to its second-straight championship with a 23-12 overall record and a 12-2 mark in conference play. UNH faced No. 1- and eventual national champion- Southern California in the team's third appearance in the NCAA Tournament under Coach Hirschinger.
In 2002, Hirschinger guided the 'Cats to a 23-11 overall record and the team earned its second America East title in school history, along with the second NCAA Tournament berth in UNH history. The Wildcats fell to Big Ten champion Minnesota in four games, becoming the first team in America East to win a game in the NCAA Tournament since the NCAA went to a 64-team format.
In 1998, Hirschinger led UNH to a 24-11 overall record with a perfect 14-0 mark in America East action. The Wildcats had a banner season, defeating conference rival Hofstra for the school's first-ever America East championship and first appearance in the NCAA Tournament against the nationally ranked University of Arkansas. The Wildcats tallied the second-most wins in school history with 24 (26 in 1980). Hirschinger also earned America East Coach of the Year for the second year in a row, while several players garnered all-conference awards. She also guided the 'Cats to a school-record 14 consecutive wins in 1998.
Hirschinger took over the Wildcat program in 1996, when the team was in just its second year at the Division I varsity level since 1984. She led the young team to a 6-26 overall record, which included victories in four of the Wildcats' final six matches.
Hirschinger recorded her 500th career coaching victory Oct. 15, 2000 vs. Drexel and she posted her 100th career victory at UNH on Nov. 18, 2000 vs. Northeastern in the America East semifinal match.
She was appointed to the 17-member AVCA Board of Directors in May of 2005. Hirschinger also serves as Chair for the AVCA All-America committees. Hirschinger will serve on the regional ranking advisory committee for the NCAA. She served three years as the Senior Women's Administrator in UNH's Athletic Department from 2001-2004.
Before coming to Durham, Hirschinger spent the previous 12 seasons at Ferris State University, located in Big Rapids, Mich. Hirschinger registered 11 winning seasons and ended her stay at Ferris as the winningest coach in Bulldog history with a 330-151 (.686) overall record. She led FSU to seven Division II postseason playoff appearances and recorded a milestone 400th victory in that span. Hirschinger was named Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year (GLIAC) on four occasions, regional Coach of the Year three times, and led the Bulldogs to an NCAA Final Four appearance in 1987 and Elite Eight appearance in 1989. She also coached nine All-Americans and two academic All-Americans while coaching the Bulldogs. Hirschinger also owns the NCAA record with 46 consecutive wins, while at FSU. In addition to her coaching duties at Ferris State, Hirschinger served as an Assistant Athletic Director and was in charge of NCAA compliance at the school. She was a member of the NCAA Division II national volleyball committee, and also served on the All-America and National Golf Committees. Hirschinger was inducted into the FSU Athletic Hall of Fame in the summer of 2008.
Prior to her arrival at Ferris State, Hirschinger began her collegiate volleyball coaching career at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. During her five-year stint at Drake, she guided the NCAA Division I program to two appearances at the U.S. Volleyball Association's National Tournament and an Iowa Division I state title. She compiled a 79-90-10 (.469) record during her tenure at Drake.
A 1979 graduate of Utah State University, Hirschinger compiled an impressive athletic resume during her collegiate career, excelling in volleyball, garnering all-conference, all-region and team captain recognition while helping the Aggies claim the AIAW Division I national championship and Collegiate Classic North America Cup championship in 1978. Hirschinger was also a standout in track and field, qualifying nationally (1976-79) in the javelin and placing 10th in 1977. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Physical Education at Utah State. In the winter of 2008, Hirschinger and the rest of the 1978 National Championship team were inducted into the Utah State Athletic Hall of Fame.
Born in West Allis, Wis., Hirschinger graduated from West Allis Central High School and attended New Mexico State University for one year. A two-sport athlete at New Mexico State, she led her team to a 10th-place finish at the National Volleyball Championships in 1975.


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Last week Youssef Rakha lamented the sameness of the cultural press in the wake of revolution; this week he unpacks the role of that press as the morally superior Margin to an alleged establishment Text
It has been less than four months since the interim government of Essam Sharaf took charge and, true to form, intellectuals representing the supposed margin (of dissidence, of freedom, of whatever happens to be unlike or alternative to centres of money and power) are already assessing the performance of Emad Abu-Ghazi's Ministry of Culture, questioning the presence in its ranks of former members of the NDP or its attempts to accommodate Salafi pressures through censorship, forgetting that the NDP and fundamentalist Islam are far more representative of the society in which they live than they could ever hope to be, and still possessing not a clue on how to achieve what they have always taken to be their raison d'être – transforming that society.
Intellectuals are doing so, for example, in the dedicated publication Akhbar Al-Adab, which, following a drawn-out, post-revolution strike against a corrupt editor more like a pro-government journalist (for which read civil servant) than an intellectual, is now edited by Abla El-Reweini: a triumph for all concerned but a development, ironically, that maintained the pre-revolution status quo of a small-circulation, progressive weekly subsidised by a gargantuan, more or less reactionary establishment (Akhbar Al-Yom). After some 50 years of ineffectuality, abolishing the ministry of culture altogether seemed not only the wiser but also the more revolutionary decision.
Yet the proposition found little support among the universally pro-revolution intellectuals themselves – and cultural circles by extension. It seems the intellectuals, like their counterparts in almost every field of endeavour, were eager to resume their usual role: that of disgruntled observer of official culture, which presupposes the existence of the latter. It seems they too could not wait for life to go "back to normal". What is strange about this is not their impatience with the prospect of chaos, with temporary or partial unemployment and logistical, financial uncertainty. It is their failure to see the revolution as an opportunity for revising their perspective on culture itself: what it means to be an intellectual, what counts in a political position, what is the point of having or being part of a government-controlled institution…
For a decade following the "first independence" of 1956, big ideas about national consciousness and a state for the people did support cultural practises as part of a totalitarian system whose credibility came into question with the 1967 defeat. However, with the onset of anti-nationalist nationalism and mafia-style capitalism under Sadat, Egyptian culture – for a brief spell, an effective arm of the state – very quickly devolved into sporadic literary and audio-visual phenomena that have existed outside or in spite of corrupt and by now wholly superfluous institutions.
(Superfluous to the point of no longer even serving the regime that squandered public funds on them: from within another small-circulation, relatively progressive weekly subsidised by an even more gargantuan and reactionary institution, the revolution has made it possible to ask whether the decision by the former editor in chief of the daily Al-Ahram Ossama Saraya, a few months before the revolution, to Photoshop the figure of Mubarak from the back to the front of a small group of heads of state in a universally available wire picture before publishing it – the notorious "expressive intervention" scandal – actually served Mubarak's interests.)
The failure of the Sadat regime to live up to the promise of freedom and its wholesale adoption of the Cold War strategy of endorsing political Islam to fend off the communist threat – just as idiotic, in the end, as Nasser's non-alignment or pro-Soviet strategies of pan-Arab nationalism – resulted in the phenomenon of the "marginal" intellectual (i.e., the intellectual who did not openly pander to a regime she knew to have no legitimacy) as "the conscience of the nation".
In the light of the isolation of both culture and power from an ever more underdeveloped society and so in the absence of the nation itself, the conscience of the nation is an interesting concept. The conscience of the nation critiques a construct, and in so doing it enters into a power game with fake representatives of (Arab, or Muslim) identity. Culture turns into an airtight system of shifting alliances and ongoing conflicts, personally driven and materialistically substantiated. The cultural margin becomes a steganographic part of the text of the regime not half as different from the society it rules as Akhbar Al-Adab would have us believe, a text – or a muddle of pious bureaucracy and incompetent profiteering – no longer really being written.
The marginal intellectual's role before as after the revolution is to cling onto the moral high ground, critiquing the failure of said regime to undertake its national responsibility to a sublime thing called culture. But there can be no moral high ground in the absence of morality, nor does true culture – whether state-supported or spontaneous – emerge in isolation from the flesh-and-blood, dust-and-exhaust fume reality of which it is part. Neither nation nor culture can ever be very clearly defined in a police (or military) state where ideologies and counter ideologies, whether nationalist or Islamist, have eventually revealed themselves to be mere sloganeering.
Under Mubarak, Islamists (Salafis) were systematically unleashed on society in return for staying out of politics. The Ministry, headed for over 25 years by the former intelligence agent and abstract expressionist painter Farouk Hosni, turned culture into mega-project business closely associated with tourism and archaeology, by turns outraging and making outrageous concessions to Salafism.
Under Hosni the ministry totally emasculated an intellect like Gaber Asfour and totally abandoned one like the late Nasr Abu-Zeid, a potential and an actual victim of the "Islamic threat", respectively. It siphoned money out of the country, like every other stolid ministry under Mubarak. In the systematic attacks on its abuses by the founding editor of Akhbar Al-Adab, the novelist Gamal El-Ghitani (who has called on Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Mubarak's long-standing defence minister and the head of the Higher Military Council, to assume the role of absolute ruler for a period of three years following the revolution), it found a shadow ministry with sufficient cover to make intellectuals feel they were active agents of a living culture, up against something they should be up against, owners of the moral high ground.
Yet now as before it is as if what must by definition be creative and organically rooted practise can be judged on the same terms as health care, for example. Now as before even intellectuals who recognise the bankruptcy of slogan-driven and populist consciousness are unable to let go of their role as the mirror image of a monster that does not really exist, or one that exists only insofar as they themselves allow it to.
The socio-cultural critic, which is the closest thing to what the Akhbar Al-Adab intellectual is or should be, is still at the receiving end of an intention emanating from an establishment that has proven, again and definitively, both culturally and morally hollow, paper thin, a vomit bag of un-things. Not only does this arrangement undermine the rebellious individual, it also turns the margin into a cog in the machinery of the very text it sets out to oppose – in the present case, and despite all the noise on both sides of the unreal divide: silence.
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